Two Charged With Grand Theft

August 3, 1986

Pompano Beach -- Two Pompano Beach men were charged with grand theft Wednesday after they left a grocery store without paying for $391.80 worth of prime meats, authorities reported.

Police said John Jeffery Collier, 24, and Floyd Howard, 28, were arrested at their residence in the 1700 block of Northwest Sixth Terrace with only a $12.83 rib eye steak and two cans of beans left in the shopping bag.

An employee of Winn Dixie, in the first block of South Powerline Road, told police he saw the men leave the store with the meat and put it in a Ford Maverick around 9:40 a.m. The clerk followed the car long enough to get a description of the men and their license plate number before calling police.